Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow upin our politics and say definite things which mean something,or whether we shall always go on using generalitiesto which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.- Eleanor Roosevelt

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.- Woody Allen

The definition of insanity is doing the same thingover and over and expecting different results.- Albert Einstein

If we take the generally accepted definition of braveryas a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,the more they are frightened.- George S. Patton

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Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.The simplest definition of meditation is:when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.- Josh Baran

My definition of success is to live your life in a waythat causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feela lot more pleasure than they do pain.- Tony Robbins

A working definition of Honor is,"respect or esteem that has been earned."Contemplate that for a moment.It would be very special to earn the respect and esteemof our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.Those who are successful and happy earn their ownself-respect and self-esteem.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth cannot be defined,although it can certainly be experienced.But experience is not a definition.A definition is made by the mind,experience comes through participating.If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.God is the ultimate dance.- Osho

Let me give you a definition of ethics:It is good to maintain and further lifeit is bad to damage and destroy life.- Albert Schweitzer

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator,while the wolf denounces him for the same actas the destroyer of liberty,especially as the sheep was a black one.Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreedupon a definition of the word liberty;and precisely the same differenceprevails today among us human creatures- Abraham Lincoln

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over againand expecting different results.- Albert Einstein (attributed)

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.At what point have you tried your best,and it's time to do something different?It's a balance - a paradox.If you get in the habit of giving upas soon as something gets difficult,your life won't work,but if you keep tilting at windmills -madly trying the same thing again and again,your life also won't work.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's a fine line between genius and insanity.I have erased this line.- Oscar Levant

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Surrealism had a great effect on mebecause then I realized thatthe imagery in my mind wasn't insanity.Surrealism to me is reality.- John Lennon

In individuals, insanity is rare;but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,it is the rule.- Friedrich Nietzsche

The simplest questions are the most profound.Where were you born?Where is your home?Where are you going?What are you doing?Think about these once in a whileand watch your answers change.- Richard Bach

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.It is what you think about.- Dale Carnegie

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,of just going along,listening to all the things you can't hear,and not bothering.- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.- Amelia Earhart

Just stop it. Seriously.Whatever it is. Just stop it.If only for an hour, a day, a week.Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpseof what the change would actually look like.- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is important to do what you don't know how to do.It is important to see your skills as keeping youfrom learning what is deepest and most mysterious.If you know how to focus, unfocus.If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.- Carlos Castaneda

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People should think things out freshand not just accept conventional termsand the conventional way of doing things.- R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between what we doand what we are capable of doingwould suffice to solve most of the world's problem.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I believe that every human mind feels pleasurein doing good to another.- Thomas Jefferson

You either do it completely and utterly,or you should stop doing it.- Bono (paraphrase)

People rarely succeed unless theyhave fun in what they are doing.- Dale Carnegie

It's not in the DOing, it's in the BEing.Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,your greatest contributionto current and future generationswill be the happiness and joyyou generated and radiated to those around you.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Determine never to be idle.No person will have occasion to complainof the want of time who never loses any.It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.- Thomas Jefferson

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doingwas to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.- Margaret Mead

The great pleasure in life is doingwhat people say you cannot do.- Walter Bagehot

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.There can be no courage unless you're scared.- Eddie Rickenbacker

Success is not the key to happiness.Happiness is the key to success.If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.- Albert Schweitzer

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,who made mistakes, but recovered from them.- Bono

We ourselves feel that what we are doingis just a drop in the ocean.But the ocean would be lessbecause of that missing drop.- Mother Teresa

I do the very best I know how -the very best I can;and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.- Abraham Lincoln

Far and away the best prize that life has to offeris the chance to work hard at work worth doing.- Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing with which every man is so afraidas getting to know how enormously muchhe is capable of doing and becoming.- Soren Kierkegaard

We're so engaged in doing thingsto achieve purposes of outer valuethat we forget the inner value,the rapture that is associatedwith being alive, is what it is all about.- Joseph Campbell

Lives based on having are less freethan lives based on doing or being.- E.Y. Harburg

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.- Winston Churchill

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.You have no one to blame but yourself.- Joseph Campbell

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.- Anonymous

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.Practice non-action. Work without doing.- Lao Tzu

Never let your sense of moralsget in the way of doing what's right.- Isaac Asimov

Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lotof worry and regret by choosing to permanentlyerase it from your to-do list.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.There lies freedom, indeed.- Anonymous

It is better to displease the peopleby doing what you know is right.- William J. H. Boetcker

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harmbut because of those who look at it without doing anything.- Albert Einstein

If thy brother wrongs thee,remember not so much his wrong-doing,but more than ever that he is thy brother.- Epictetus

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,while others judge us by what we have already done.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can't live a perfect day without doing somethingfor someone who will never be able to repay you.- John Wooden

One of the secrets of life is thatall that is really worth the doingis what we do for others.- Lewis Carroll

To have a right to do a thingis not at all the same as to be right in doing it.- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.- Lao Tzu

Start by doing what's necessary;then do what's possible;and suddenly you are doing the impossible.- St. Francis of Assisi

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.- Margaret Thatcher

What are you doing for others?- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,'What are you doing for others?'- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is betterto displease the people by doing what you know is right,than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.- William J. H. Boetcker

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,we would literally astound ourselves.- Thomas Edison

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Do not look for approvalexcept for the consciousness of doing your best.- Andrew Carnegie

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,and doing new things, because we're curiousand curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.- Walt Disney

You can not find happiness by chasing after it.Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,and from being who you truly are.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;revenging one make you but even with him;forgiving it sets you above him.- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

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